Learning Online with Virtual Labs - Microsoft Office Virtual Labs

Today, a great series of labs for developing Office solutions, including a bunch of brand-new labs on Visual Studio Tools for Office. Microsoft Office Virtual Labs (from the MSDN Suite of Virtual Labs).

The 2007 Microsoft Office System delivers an entirely new level of programmability and extensibility to Office client applications and new scenarios via Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. These Virtual Labs will walk you through the development of Workflow, programmatic manipulation of Office Open XML Formats and the new Office client interface.

Virtual Lab Express: Introduction to the 2007 Microsoft Office System
Virtual Lab Express is the fastest and easiest way to test drive Microsoft products and the Virtual Lab environment. These are 20-minute hands-on overviews of some of your favorite Microsoft products and developer tools. Try them out online now - no need to download full trial versions or dedicate test machines.

2007 Microsoft Office System Virtual Labs

• MSDN Virtual Lab: Using the Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Data Mining Add-Ins for the 2007 Microsoft Office System New!
• MSDN Virtual Lab: Office Business Application Reference Application Pack for Manufacturing Plant Floor Analytics New!
• MSDN Virtual Lab: Building Custom Office Applications Using Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for Office Part 1 - Data Binding with Word Content Controls New!
• MSDN Virtual Lab: Building Custom Office Applications Using Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for Office Part 2 - Create an Outlook Add-in with a Form Region New!
• MSDN Virtual Lab: Building Custom Office Applications Using Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for Office Part 3 - Build an Excel Add-in with Ribbon and Custom Task Pane Integration New!
• MSDN Virtual Lab: Building Custom Office Applications Using Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for Office Part 4 - Create a SharePoint Workflow New!
• Building InfoPath Forms that Run as Both Rich Client and Browser Applications
• Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Installation and Configuration
• Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services Installation and Configuration
• Business Intelligence: Building Integrated BI Solutions Leveraging SQL 2005 and Office 2007 Servers
• New Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 Programmability
• Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Records Management Deployment and Configuration
• Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Enterprise Features Administration
• What's New in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Feature Walkthrough
• What's New in Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Feature Walkthrough
• First Look at Microsoft Office 2007
• Programmatic Manipulation of the Microsoft Office Open XML Formats
• Understanding the 2007 Microsoft Office System User Experience and Interface Design
• Introducing Content Types for Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0

Office 2003 Virtual Labs

• Developing with Visual Studio 2005 for Microsoft Office 2003
• Word 2003 - Understanding How Word 2003 Uses XML
• Excel 2003 - Building Microsoft Office Excel 2003 XML Solutions
• Excel 2003 - Understanding XML and Microsoft Office Excel 2003
• Excel 2003 - Building Microsoft Office Excel 2003 XML Solutions
• Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office Solution Development with Excel 2003
• Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office Solution Development with Word 2003
• InfoPath 2003 - Creating and Deploying Forms
• InfoPath 2003 - Managed Code, Task Panes, Modifying Schemas, Digital Signatures

You get a downloadable manual and a 90-minute block of time for each module. You can sign up for additional 90-minute blocks at any time.